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Paulsboro Repeals Curfew and Loitering Ordinance

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Written by: Jay Edgar
Category: Preempted Ordinance Repeal Project
Created: October 10, 2014
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As a result of a request from the NJ Libertarian Party, the Borough of Paulsboro has repealed Chapter 28, Curfew of the Code of the Borough of Paulsboro.

The repeal passed 5 to 1. Several councilmen stated objections. Councilman Corradetti expressed concern that police wouldn't be able to stop people from congregating on the streets. Councilman Stevenson, the lone no vote, blamed the illegality of loitering ordinances on the ACLU.

The NJ Libertarian Party strongly believes that the police should not have the power to stop people from congregating on the streets at all. All local loitering ordinances in New Jersey are invalid and unenforceable.

State refuses to identify municipal professionals enrolled in state pension plan. Claims that those professionals have a "reasonable expectation of privacy"

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Written by: John Paff
Category: Open Government Advocacy Project
Created: October 09, 2014
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In 2007, the New Jersey Legislature enacted N.J.S.A. 43:15A-7.2, which was intended to curtail the participation of professional service providers such as attorneys and engineers in the New Jersey Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS). The law, which became effective on January 1, 2008, made these professionals ineligible for PERS participation as of the expiration date of their existing contract or annual appointment.

Despite this mandate, the New Jersey's Office of the State Comptroller (OSC), in a July 17, 2012 report entitled "Improper Participation By Professional Service Providers In The State Pension System," (on-line here) found that "an overwhelming majority" the municipalities and school districts it surveyed had "failed to comply with the statutory requirement to remove independent contractors from PERS." This failure, the OSC report noted, has the potential to cost the state millions of dollars in inappropriate future pension benefits."

According to the report, the OSC developed a list of 332 professionals, retained by 228 municipalities and school districts, who remained in the PERS system after the law took effect. The OSC then conducted a survey of 58 of the 228 local units and several of those municipalities surveyed are mentioned in the report.

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Lacey secretly pays $10,000 to settle police false arrest/excessive force suit

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Written by: John Paff
Category: Police Accountability Project
Created: October 03, 2014
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On July 16, 2014, the Township of Lacey (Ocean County) agreed to pay $10,000 to three brothers who sued members of the Lacey Police Department for allegedly applying excessive force, falsely arresting them and searching their premises without a warrant.

In their suit, Daniel, John and Joseph Samoles said that on May 27, 2010, police were called after Bessie A. Patten "attempted to extort money from Plaintiff Daniel Samoles at gunpoint."  Daniel said that he called police after disarming Patten and that Officers Brian Flynn, Adam Ewart, Gerald Noda, Paul Sullivan, Thomas Bruce, James Veltri and James Wood arrived at the residence.  The officers, with guns drawn, ordered the brothers out of the house and told them to get on their knees and raise their hands.  The men, who claimed that their home security camera recorded the event, said that the officers arrested them and applied excessive force even though the brothers complied with all police commands.  The brothers said that the officers then went into the house without a warrant and searched the family's personal belongings.  They also claimed that $2,000 was stolen.

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IA Complaint against Roselle Park Police Officers‏

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Written by: John Paff
Category: Police Accountability Project
Created: October 01, 2014
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Police Accountability Project of the New Jersey Libertarian Party

Paul Morrison, Chief
Roselle Park Police Department
110 East Westfield Avenue
Roselle Park, NJ 07204
via e-mail only to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Dear Chief Morrison:

I chair the New Jersey Libertarian Party's Police Accountability Project and ask that you accept this e-mail as our Internal Affairs complaint. I am forwarding this complaint to you, as Chief of Police, because there is nothing on your web site identifying the person within your Department to whom an Internal Affairs complaint should be directed.

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Press of Atlantic City Issues Editorial In Support of NJLP Preempted Ordinance Project

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Written by: Webmaster
Category: Preempted Ordinance Repeal Project
Created: September 19, 2014
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See the editorial written in support of repealing outdated loitering laws on The Press of Atlantic City website.

2014 Reason Foundation Highway Report

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Written by: Jay Edgar
Category: Latest News
Created: September 18, 2014
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Today the Reason Foundation released their 21st Annual Report on the Performance of the State Highway System. This report ranks the quality and spending on the state highways based on data reported by each state for 2012 and part of 2011. Our legislators should be hanging their heads in shame while the taxpayers should be sharpening their pitchforks.

The condition of New Jersey highways ranks very low while spending per mile far outpaces the rest of the nation. New Jersey spends 12.5 times more than the national average per mile. This is over 3 times more than Massachusetts, the next lowest spender.

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Manville Repeals Outdated Ordinances

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Written by: Webmaster
Category: Preempted Ordinance Repeal Project
Created: September 11, 2014
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As a result of pressure from the NJ Libertarian Party's Preempted Ordinance Repeal Project, Manville has repealed three loitering and curfew ordinances.

An article announcing the repeal has been published by The Manville news. A recent letter sent by by committee chair, John Paff to the Borough of Manville is below.

Manville was originally scheduled to repeal this ordinance one year ago.

Does your town have an outdated ordinance? If so contact us and we will see what we can do.

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Gloucester Township discloses DPW Director police reports

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Written by: John Paff
Category: Open Government Advocacy Project
Created: September 09, 2014
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Asserting that "the criminal investigation has concluded," Gloucester Township (Camden County) municipal attorney David F. Carlamere has disclosed police reports of a "theft of services" allegedly committed by former Township Public Works Director Len Moffa. I have previously blogged about this lawsuit here.

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Perth Amboy, in a sanctimonious display, finally gives up police report on alleged teacher-on-teacher sexual assault

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Written by: John Paff
Category: Open Government Advocacy Project
Created: September 09, 2014
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In a September 3, 2014 letter, Perth Amboy (Middlesex County) City Attorney Mark J. Blunda, provided a redacted copy of a two-page police report regarding an alleged sexual assault by one Perth Amboy school teacher against another.  The letter and the report, on-line here, bring my lawsuit, which I blogged about here, to an end.

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Regarding Repeal of Paulsboro's juvenile curfew ordinance

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Written by: John Paff
Category: Preempted Ordinance Repeal Project
Created: September 08, 2014
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Hon. W. Jeffery Hamilton, Mayor, and members of the
Paulsboro Borough Council
1211 Delaware Street
Paulsboro, NJ 08066
Via e-mail only

Dear Mayor Hamilton and Council members:

For the reasons that follow, I believe that Chapter 28 of Paulsboro's Code, establishing a juvenile curfew, is unconstitutional and that a person against whom enforcement is sought may have a viable lawsuit against the Borough.

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Former Executive Director's lawsuit against Gloucester Township Housing Authority

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Written by: John Paff
Category: Open Government Advocacy Project
Created: September 08, 2014
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I just learned today that Roy Rogers, the Gloucester Township Housing Authority's (GTHA) former director, filed a lawsuit against the Authority earlier this year alleging that he was improperly fired on February 27, 2013 and that he "was terminated for his objection to unethical GTHA policies and actions." The lawsuit is on-line here.

The most specific allegations start on page 9 and include charges that Mayor David Mayer "became visibly angry and frustrated" when Rogers objected to awarding a contract for a development project to a person who did not submit a bid.  He also charged that he upset Township officials when he "refused to request campaign donations at fundraisers from private contractors for GTHA commissioners and Township officials and candidates." He also claimed that he verbally objected to a land transfer made by GTHA Commissioner Cindy Carlamere and her husband, who is Gloucester Township Attorney David Carlamere, stating that it was "unethical and procedurally improper."

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Perth Amboy school board secretly settles with former superintendent for $184,000

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Written by: John Paff
Category: Open Government Advocacy Project
Created: September 05, 2014
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On August 29, 2014, I blogged an entry entitled "Thirteen recent ethics cases against Perth Amboy school board members" concerning several school ethics matters filed by former Perth Amboy school superintendent Janine Walker Caffrey and former elementary school principal Alvaro J. Cores against members of the Board of Education.

In my blog, I noted that there were two other ethics matters, bearing Case Nos. ECC-11709-13 and ECC-00806-14 that had been " withdrawn by agreement of all parties in anticipation of settlement or mediation."  I promised to submit an additional OPRA request for records pertaining to those two cases.

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John Paff, Chair of NJ Libertarian Party Open Government Advocacy Project, Wins National Award

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Written by: Jay Edgar
Category: Open Government Advocacy Project
Created: September 05, 2014
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NEWS RELEASE

September 5, 2014
For immediate release
Contact: Hyde Post, President, NFOIC
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.· 404.216.2661 or 573.882.4856

State Open Government Activist is 2014 FOI Hall of Famer

Well known for his public advocacy and a frequent panelist and speaker throughout New Jersey, John Paff this year becomes the 15th inductee into the State Open Government Freedom of Information Hall of Fame. Known as the “Heroes of the Fifty States,” the joint initiative of the National Freedom of Information Coalition (NFOIC) and the Society of Professional Journalists recognizes the recipient’s “long and steady effort to preserve and protect the free flow of information about state and local government that is vital to the public in a democracy.” Formal induction takes place on October 24 at the 2014 NFOIC Freedom of Information Summit in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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The Root Cause Of Terrorism

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Written by: Alex Pugliese
Category: Selected Blogs
Created: September 05, 2014
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The recent news that the ISIS terror group has among its ranks Americans and citizens from other western nations forces two questions to be asked: What would make an individual join a terrorist group and what do these groups look for in a recruit? While I believe that the answers vary, the main twelve reasons, in my view, are the following that a terrorist group would look for:

  1. A person who has a sense of emptiness, who is going through a challenging time and has a yearning to find meaning in his or her life.

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  1. Lawsuit: Gloucester Township allegedly used threat of arrest to coerce employee to resign
  2. Shopping bag tax a waste of Mercer County freeholder time
  3. Thirteen recent ethics cases against Perth Amboy school board members
  4. Eminent Domain Abuse In Atlantic City

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